Griffiniella

Griffiniella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Blattodea
Family:	Blaberidae
Genus:	Griffiniella; Brunner von Wattenwyl, 1865
Species
	G. africana (Saussure 1895)[1]; G. heterogamia Karny 1908[1]; G. larvalis Princis 1965[1]; G. marmorata (Shelford 1910)[1]

Griffiniella is one of several cockroach genera in the family Blaberidae, the giant cockroach or ovoviviparous cockroach family.[2] The genus was described by Heinrich Hugo Karny in 1908, and named by him in honor of the prolific author Dr. Achille Griffini of the Royal Technical Institute of Genoa.[3][4][5]

References

"Taxinomic Information for Griffiniella". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
"Common names for giant cockroaches (Blaberidae)". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 28 March 2014.
Karny, H. (1908). "Blattaeformia oothecaria". In Schultze, Leonhard (ed.). Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika: ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 mit Unterstützung der Kgl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (in German). Jena, Germany: Verlag von Gustav Fischer. p. 383. Dedicatum hoc genus elegans Dom. Prof. Dr. A. Griffini, excellenti Orthopterorum et Oothecariorum omnium auctori.
Holland, W. J., ed. (1915). Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Vol. IX. Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute. p. 400.
Poulton, Edward B., ed. (1908). "31: Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, 1907". The Hope Reports, volume VI: 1906-1908. Oxford: Private printing by printer to the University of Oxford. pp. 64 (within chapter).

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[eol-classification-1] "Taxinomic Information for Griffiniella". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 28 March 2014.

[eol-common-2] "Common names for giant cockroaches (Blaberidae)". Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved 28 March 2014.

[karny1908-3] Karny, H. (1908). "Blattaeformia oothecaria". In Schultze, Leonhard (ed.). Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika: ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 mit Unterstützung der Kgl. Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (in German). Jena, Germany: Verlag von Gustav Fischer. p. 383. Dedicatum hoc genus elegans Dom. Prof. Dr. A. Griffini, excellenti Orthopterorum et Oothecariorum omnium auctori.

[4] Holland, W. J., ed. (1915). Annals of the Carnegie Museum. Vol. IX. Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute. p. 400.

[5] Poulton, Edward B., ed. (1908). "31: Report of the Hope Professor of Zoology, 1907". The Hope Reports, volume VI: 1906-1908. Oxford: Private printing by printer to the University of Oxford. pp. 64 (within chapter).